For all his plotting and scheming, Akio has been about as successful, and about as threatening, as Cobra Commander. Perhaps even less so... in the end, after all, Cobra Commander managed to outlast the Joes, live to a ripe old age, and work for a crime lord giving the Autobots grief. Gets away scot-free too, after the plot of the day is foiled :)

(Seriously, he honestly does show up in an episode of the 1986 Transformers cartoon.)